Adelaide Film Festival director Katrina Sedgwick talks about When The Mountains Tremble, a 1983 documentary made by Thomas Sigel and Pamela Yates about the Guatemalan civil war and its effects on that country's large rural indigenous population. It's also about the personal story of a young Mayan woman, Rigoberta Menchu, who went on to win the Nobel peace prize in 1992.

A harrowing chapter of Latin American history, but an exceptional piece of filmmaking. Pamela Yates will be presenting her films in Adelaide and delivering a masterclass as guest of both the festival and of the Australian International Documentary Conference.